Aboriginal Recommendations for Substance Use Program Evaluation
Objective: To identify Aboriginal people's key recommendations for evaluating alcohol (and other drug) prevention and intervention program effectiveness. Method: Part of a wider, two-year, Aboriginal-initiated study into the context and Indigenous perceptions of Aboriginal alcohol use preventio...
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Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal
2010
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| description | Objective: To identify Aboriginal people's key recommendations for evaluating alcohol (and other drug) prevention and intervention program effectiveness. Method: Part of a wider, two-year, Aboriginal-initiated study into the context and Indigenous perceptions of Aboriginal alcohol use prevention and intervention, using a descriptive, grounded theory, participatory action study design. From a demographically comprehensive full study sample of 170 Aboriginal people, a sub-sample of 84 people (identified via purposive, opportunistic and snowball sampling strategies) responded to qualitative, semi-structured interview questions regarding their proposals for intervention program evaluation. These proposals were distilled over time by the study's intervention-model planning group into the evaluation recommendations described here. Results: Participants' evaluation recommendations were in keeping with the capacity-building focus evident in proposals throughout the wider study, including a focus on addressing perceived causes of substance misuse rather than its symptoms. Program-evaluation criteria focused largely on the degree to which people re-engaged withfamily and community-both during and after intervention. Far less focus was placed on the use of alcohol (or other substances). Conclusions and implications: Among the study's remote area Aboriginal participants, recommendations for the evaluation of substance misuse intervention success differed markedly from criteria generally in use, with a key focus being the degree of a person's engagement with family and community. These findings are relevant to understandings and design of culturally meaningful program content and program evaluation. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-125752017-01-30T11:31:32Z Aboriginal Recommendations for Substance Use Program Evaluation Nichols, Fiona Aboriginal model program evaluation family substance use community social determinants capacity-building Objective: To identify Aboriginal people's key recommendations for evaluating alcohol (and other drug) prevention and intervention program effectiveness. Method: Part of a wider, two-year, Aboriginal-initiated study into the context and Indigenous perceptions of Aboriginal alcohol use prevention and intervention, using a descriptive, grounded theory, participatory action study design. From a demographically comprehensive full study sample of 170 Aboriginal people, a sub-sample of 84 people (identified via purposive, opportunistic and snowball sampling strategies) responded to qualitative, semi-structured interview questions regarding their proposals for intervention program evaluation. These proposals were distilled over time by the study's intervention-model planning group into the evaluation recommendations described here. Results: Participants' evaluation recommendations were in keeping with the capacity-building focus evident in proposals throughout the wider study, including a focus on addressing perceived causes of substance misuse rather than its symptoms. Program-evaluation criteria focused largely on the degree to which people re-engaged withfamily and community-both during and after intervention. Far less focus was placed on the use of alcohol (or other substances). Conclusions and implications: Among the study's remote area Aboriginal participants, recommendations for the evaluation of substance misuse intervention success differed markedly from criteria generally in use, with a key focus being the degree of a person's engagement with family and community. These findings are relevant to understandings and design of culturally meaningful program content and program evaluation. 2010 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12575 Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Aboriginal model program evaluation family substance use community social determinants capacity-building Nichols, Fiona Aboriginal Recommendations for Substance Use Program Evaluation |
| title | Aboriginal Recommendations for Substance Use Program Evaluation |
| title_full | Aboriginal Recommendations for Substance Use Program Evaluation |
| title_fullStr | Aboriginal Recommendations for Substance Use Program Evaluation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Aboriginal Recommendations for Substance Use Program Evaluation |
| title_short | Aboriginal Recommendations for Substance Use Program Evaluation |
| title_sort | aboriginal recommendations for substance use program evaluation |
| topic | Aboriginal model program evaluation family substance use community social determinants capacity-building |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12575 |